Ties That Bind: A Social History of the Iranian Carpet

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This social history of Iranian carpets traces their production, use, and exchange from the fifteenth century until World War II, highlighting in particular the carpet boom from 1873 to 1914. Over these five centuries, the Iranian hand-knotted, piled carpet shifted from an object made primarily for the Islamic Middle East to a commodity that by the twentieth century constituted Iran's largest nonpetroleum export to the West. The hand-knotted carpet, according to Helfgott, reveals an intricate record of Iranian ...
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This social history of Iranian carpets traces their production, use, and exchange from the fifteenth century until World War II, highlighting in particular the carpet boom from 1873 to 1914. Over these five centuries, the Iranian hand-knotted, piled carpet shifted from an object made primarily for the Islamic Middle East to a commodity that by the twentieth century constituted Iran's largest nonpetroleum export to the West. The hand-knotted carpet, according to Helfgott, reveals an intricate record of Iranian society - its economic development, gender relations, and art history. Beginning with the rugs' early uses among settled peoples, nomadic pastoralists, and the Iranian court elites, Helfgott traces the changes in carpet manufacture and Iranian society that ensued when the West began importing carpets as luxury items in the nineteenth century. He follows the expansion of Mediter-ranean trade in carpets into a global market, linking it to the local patterns of production in nomadic, village, and urban settings. He also describes the debilitating conditions in which women and children knotted the carpets and discusses the European fascination with Iranian culture and, in a case study, the creation of the Iranian art collection at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Ties That Bind draws on travelers' reports, British Foreign Office records, missionary diaries and records, and carpets and acquisition records in major museum collections.
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Traces the social, cultural, and economic changes in Iran and the changing taste and pattern of consumption in the west as revealed in the development of the hand-knotted, piled Persian carpet from a local product in the 15th century through a luxury import in the 17th to Iran's largest non-petroleum export today. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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  • ISBN-13: 9781560982692
  • Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
  • Publication date: 2/1/1994
  • Pages: 368
  • Product dimensions: 6.23 (w) x 9.22 (h) x 1.13 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments IX
1. Introduction: The Carpet as a Historical Object 1
Part 1 The Iranian Carpet in the Premodern World
2. From Pallet to Palace: The Historical Background of Iranian Carpets 25
3. Classical Safavid Carpets 49
Part 2 The Iranian Carpet in the West
4. From Palace to Parlor: The West's Oriental Obsession 83
5. Robert Murdoch Smith and the Birth of the Modern Carpet Industry in Iran, 1873-1883 125
Part 3 The Carpet Boom and After: The Origins of the Carpet Industry
6. Nomadic Pastoralism and Carpet Production, Use, and Exchange 147
7. Nomadic Pastoralists: The Carpet Boom and After 167
8. Cottage and Carpets: Domestic Production During the Boom Years 195
9. Carpets and the New Iranian Proletariat, 1870-1940 235
Conclusion 275
Notes 281
Selected Bibliography 327
Index 347
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